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  • Dart Award Winner

    Apr 15 2010

    The Deadly Choices at Memorial

    Photo: Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum / The New York Times: Four years after Katr ...

    By Sheri Fink, Paolo Pellegrin, Stephen Engelberg, Susan White, Ilena Silverman, Aaron Retica, David Ferguson, Charles Wilson, and Krista Kjellman Schmidt

    This gripping narrative, which exposes the decision-making that left 18 patients dead after injections of painkillers and sedatives in a flooded hospital in New Orleans, is a winner of the 2010 Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma. It was originally published by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine in August, 2009. 


  • Announcement

    Apr 15 2010

    2010 Dart Award Winners

    Photo: Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum / The New York Times: Four years after Katr ...

    The winners of the 2010 Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma: the St. Petersburg Times and ProPublica in collaboration with The New York Times Magazine.

  • Video Interview

    Aug 27 2009

    Deadly Decisions

    ProPublica reporter Sheri Fink discusses her story, "The Deadly Choices at Memorial."

    By Bruce Shapiro

    In a Katrina-flooded hospital, doctors injected patients with painkillers and sedatives. Were they trying to ease their pain or to speed their deaths? ProPublica reporter Sheri Fink tells the story.

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